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Strategic planning can: — promote a more interactive and transparent planning process and encourages early and iterative dialogue with relevant authorities, interest groups etc., which may significantly reduce the overall time required for the permitting procedure; — provide a broader and more suitable framework for considering potential cumulative effects with other plans or projects, and feasible alternatives; — help to avoid or reduce the number of potential site-specific conflicts at a later stage in the development process, when financial and legal resources have been committed and there is less room for manoeuvre; — provide developers with relevant information and legal certainty about environmental concerns that may need to be considered already during the initial project concept; — be more cost effective in the long run (if possible mitigation measures are factored in at an early planning stage, they are likely to be technically easier and cheaper to integrate); — analyse broad alternatives, such as deployment of green infrastructure instead of ‘grey infrastructure’; lead to the development of new, creative and innovative solutions (including nature-based) and potential win-win situations; — contribute to improving the public image of the projects and the institutions responsible.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.